Units 1 & 2
This map projection is commonly used for sea navigation because it keeps shapes accurate, though it severely distorts the size of landmasses near the poles.
What is the Mercator Projection?
This term refers to place names, which can reveal the history, values, or physical character of a location.
What are Toponyms?
This 1960s movement used high-yield seeds (GMOs) and chemical fertilizers to drastically increase food production in developing countries like India.
What is the Green Revolution (or 3rd Agricultural Revolution)?
This index measures the "cost" of being female in a country by looking at reproductive health, empowerment, and labor market participation.
What is the Gender Inequality Index (GII)?
This concept describes the process by which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.
What is Ethnic Cleansing?
This term describes the number of people divided by the total amount of arable (farmable) land.
What is Physiological Density?
These characteristics, such as a shared language or religion, help unify a country and provide stability.
What are Centripetal Forces?
In the Von Thünen model, this perishable product is produced in the first ring closest to the city because it is expensive to transport and spoils quickly.
What are Dairy and Horticulture (Market Gardening)?
This index measures development by looking at three factors: a long and healthy life, knowledge (education), and a decent standard of living.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
This phenomenon occurs when a state’s central government grants more power to regional governments, often to prevent a nation from seeking full independence.
What is Devolution?
Thomas Malthus famously theorized that food production grows linearly while this grows exponentially, eventually leading to a "Malthusian Crisis."
What is Population?
This type of state stretches across multiple international borders, such as the Kurds or the Korean people.
What is a Multistate Nation?
This economic sector involves the "service industry," connecting producers to consumers through activities like retail, banking, or education.
What is the Tertiary Sector?
This term refers to the clustering of similar businesses (like tech companies in Silicon Valley) to share costs and labor pools.
What is Agglomeration?
While the Green Revolution increased yields, it was criticized for causing this environmental process, where excessive irrigation in arid climates leads to a buildup of salts in the soil, eventually making it infertile.
What is Salinization?
This concept explains how modern technology and the internet "shrink" the world by accelerating the movement of items and information.
What is Time-Space Convergence (or Compression)
This supranational organization was created in 1992 to facilitate trade in Europe, requiring member countries to give up some sovereignty for economic benefit.
What is the European Union (EU)?
This economic theory states that as you move further from an urban center, land value decreases, influencing what farmers choose to grow.
What is Bid Rent Theory?
These are small, short-term loans provided to individuals (often women) in developing countries to help them start small businesses and escape poverty.
What are Microloans (or Microfinance)?
This term describes a country whose most populated city is at least twice as large as the next largest city and represents the national culture (e.g., Paris, France or Bangkok, Thailand).
What is a Primate City?
These are payments sent home by migrants to their families in their country of origin, often used to build schools or religious buildings.
What are Remittances?
This non-functioning boundary can still be detected on the cultural landscape, with the Berlin Wall being the most famous example.
What is a relic boundary?
This survey system, found in Quebec and Louisiana, divides land into narrow parcels stretching back from a river or road.
What is the Long Lot Survey System?
These are manufacturing zones in Mexico that primarily produce American products for export.
What are Maquiladoras?
This concept refers to a country's ability to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than another country, forming the basis for international trade.
What is Comparative Advantage?